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I doubt it's the engineers' fault. Usually decisions about whether or not to open an architecture to customers is based on executive paranoia, even when the company is mandated by license to open their code. This is why the GPL is finally getting enforced. The downside is now large companies are getting instructions to simply not include the contentious bits of code in their newer devices/updates so they can avoid the horror of publishing source code (that maybe they didn't keep apart from their proprietary bits well enough), so instead of a clean device that uses Busybox for stability and small footprints, we get "Joe Software's MD5 Checker" that causes overflows.
It's usually either a suit who doesn't understand development or a lawyer looking to pad his hours that invokes #fu.
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